Business briefs Nov. 11

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Nov 11, 2012 at 4:00 AM

Lawson earns board member award

COLUMBUS -- Susie Lawson, a board member for the Tri-County Educational Service Center and the Wayne County Joint Vocational School District, will be presented with the Ohio School Boards Association's Veteran Board Member Award at the association's 57th Capital Conference on Wednesday at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

Lawson was a member of the Chippewa Local board for 18 years, and has been on the Tri-County ESC and WCJVS boards since 2004.

She is immediate past president of the Northeast Ohio School Boards Association, and has received numerous awards for her work in education.

She has participated and has taken leadership roles in national conferences for National School Boards Association, High Schools That Work and the Association of Educational Service Agencies, and assists at SkillsUSA state and national conferences. Lawson has been a presenter at the NSBA Grassroots Legislation Conferences.

At the state level, she is president of the OSBA Northeast Region Executive Committee, has served on the board of trustees, is a 26-year delegate and board cabinet member.

Lawson has participated on the audit committee, the Student Achievement Leadership Team, Kids Pac and attended all Ohio Department of Development Focus Groups and the Governor's Institute on Creativity and Innovation in Education.

Locally, she was a founding member of the Tri-County Legislative Liaison Committee in 1999, where she has continued to build solid relationships with area legislators. Her philosophy of active involvement and accountability to her boards is admirable and rare. Lawson has dedicated her life to the betterment of education through her board member leadership.

The Veteran Board Member Award is given to school board members in recognition of 25 years of service. Of the more than 3,400 board members in Ohio, only six will receive the honor in 2012.

Founded in 1955, the OSBA leads the way to educational excellence by serving Ohio's public school board members and the diverse districts they represent through superior service and creative solutions.

Summers had served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Judith A. Christley, 11th District Court of Appeals of Ohio, and as assistant prosecuting attorney for Lake County.

He graduated summa cum laude with honors from Miami University with a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1992 and received his juris doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1996 where he held the position of managing editor of the Ohio State Law Journal.

Stutzman, a graduate of Wooster High School, received a bachelor of arts degree in communication from Bluffton University in 2008. He earned his juris doctor degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2011. While in law school, Stutzman served as president of the Environmental Law Society and as a Certified Legal Intern in the Community Development section of the school's Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center where he assisted both profit and nonprofit entities in the areas of real estate, business formation and development, and corporate governance and regulatory compliance.

Pagano graduated magna cum laude from Gannon University in 2007 where she was a two-time IWLCA All-American in women's lacrosse. She received her Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2011, graduating magna cum laude and ranking in the top 11 percent of her class.

At Case Western, Pagano served as notes editor for the Journal of International Law and as senior editor for the War Crimes Prosecution Watch. She has served as judicial extern in the U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania, interned at the United States Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida, and clerked for a small law firm in Pepper Pike.

Nagy's employs 40 technicians who are I-Car trained and ASE certified. Nagy's is a member of the Automotive Service Association and Holmes County, Orrville, Wooster and Wadsworth chambers of commerce.

Owners Ron Nagy and Dan Nagy are both ASE Master Collision repairers and hold the I-Car Platinum qualification as well as the Accredited Automotive Manager designation from the AMI institute in Bedford Texas.

For more information about Nagy's Collision Specialists visit www.nagys.com or call 330-642-1010.

Lemmon in Chairman's Circle

WOOSTER -- Erika Lemmon of Wooster was honored during the annual Chairman's Circle of Winners induction ceremony in New York City in October for her work at Frito-Lay in Wooster.

Lemmon, who serves as a food service and vending customer service representative for Frito-Lay North America, was one of 39 United States- and Canadian-based supply chain associates from PepsiCo North American Foods, which includes Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Oats Co. and Sabra Dipping Co., who were honored as PepsiCo's top performers worldwide with induction into the Chairman's Circle of Champions, selected from among PepsiCo's more than 250,000-person global supply chain team.

Award winners represent an elite group of supply chain associates from around the world who demonstrate exceptional performance in the area of safety, quality, service, cost, sustainability, and people skills.

Lemmon is married to Anthony Lemmon. They have two daughters, Adria and Aley.